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Acclaimed British fashion designer Luella Bartley said Tuesday that her company has stopped trading because of financial problems. The company, Luella Bartley Ltd., lost its financial backing from VSQ Ltd. It was also hit by the closure last month of the brand's ready-to-wear producer in Italy, leaving it unable to fill its orders for the upcoming spring and summer seasons. The announcement is a major setback for the brand known as Luella, which has received widespread praise from critics... Read Full Story
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Luella Bartley, the young British designer whose quirky yet feminine designs have adorned model Kate Moss and singer Lily Allen, has become the latest fashion casualty of the recession. Bartley's label, Luella, ceased trading after its ready-to-wear producer closed last month and its main financial backer pulled the plug on any further investment, the company said in a statement emailed to Reuters on Wednesday. Luella Bartley Ltd said its key producer in Italy, Carla... Read Full Story
Luella, one of Britain's top fashion labels, announced it had ceased trading Tuesday after the licensee that funded the brand for the past five years pulled out. Designer Luella Bartley, a former fashion journalist who unveiled her first collection in 1999, said the situation was "very disappointing" and "upsetting" but expressed hope she could restart the business in the future. "Luella Bartley Limited today announced that the company has ceased trading," the label said in a statement. The... Read Full Story
Luella’s Spring/ Summer 2010 collection seems to have suddenly grown up. For the past few years, British designer Luella Bartley’s collection has always been very diverse, girly with an edge; multicoloured, buckled, floral… Now she’s focused on beautiful silouhettes, cute dresses accenturating your hips…and now my must have piece has become an oversized bow!
As a huge fan of cute, little dresses, I am glad Luella has kept all the shapes cut short and made sure you can emaphasize your girly... Read Full Story
Luella Bartley, the young British designer whose quirky yet feminine designs have adorned model Kate Moss and singer Lily Allen, has become the latest fashion casualty of the recession. Read Full Story
"I don't really get into the really perfected style of dress. I'm not a doll and I don't want to dress like one - that aesthetic doesn't seem real. I like a bit of reality, scruffy hair, bitten nails, last night's make-up. Elegantly dishevelled - people can think you're not making the effort but that's the art of it, it may actually be vainer than being totally groomed hot model but probably more fun." - Luella Bartley in Lula magazine Each fashion label has a special type of character or... Read Full Story
Trading in the pen for the needle and thread was possibly the best move Luella made in 1999, swapping writing for British Vogue in pursuit of her fashion line has blasted Luella into stardom.
Luella started her career in fashion by studying Fashion Journalism at London’s renowned Central Saint Martins, a far cry from the sleepy [...]
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Forget all about flower by Kenzo and go flower power with exemplary creations from the lovable English fashion label Luella . Luella ’s flower motives bloom vividly in the colours of the rainbow creating a cheery joyous vision that is positively infectious. As French writer Jean Giraudoux said, the flower is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life [...] Read Full Story
By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director Last Updated: 7:04PM GMT 24 Feb 2009 Entertainment | Dating [ Punk notions: Bartley used a collection of hardware as decoration alongside feminine clothing to create an elcletic collection for A/W 09/10 (Photo:GEOFF PUGH) ] Luella Bartley’s muse may spend more time on the club scene than the pony club these days, but there’s still a hint of girlie-flirtatiousness about her. Bartley played with punk notions, oversized zips and a lot of hardware as... Read Full Story
For Spring/Summer 10 the Luella girl has grown up … Gone are the ditsy prints and layers of tulle we’ve come to expect from the former Voguette-turned-designer. Instead, in their place, Luella Bartley presented us with a more formal collection of fun, flirty dresses and pretty skirt suits.
More moderate than Bartley’s usual style, the collection still retains the tongue-in-cheek attitude of former collections. Read Full Story
